1537

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s – 1530s – 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years:	1534 1535 1536 – 1537 – 1538 1539 1540

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Year 1537 (MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events [edit]

January – Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England
January 6 – Alessandro de Medici is assassinated.
March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.
March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
June 2 – Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls who must not be enslaved or robbed.

August 15 – Asunción is founded by Juan de Salazar y Espinoza. It's the oldest city in South America.
August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
August-September – The Ottomans fail to capture Corfu.

Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru.
The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
The island of Paros is conquered by the Ottoman Empire
Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII, including
- Bisham Priory,
- Bridlington Priory,
- Castle Acre Priory, and
- Valle Crucis Abbey.
Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.
Bangalore is first mentioned.

January 6
- Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
- Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
January 12 – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1459)
February 3 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (executed) (b. 1513)
February 8
- Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480)
- Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481)
June 23 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
June 29 – Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1502)
July 7 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
July 14 – Robert Aske (executed) (b. 1500)
September 4 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
October 9 – Pavle Bakić, last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch
October 24 – Jane Seymour, Third Queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1508)
date unknown – John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
probable – Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)

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